Here's what I want to know, poetry fans: What is your favorite essay, by a poet, written in the last 15 years, on any of the following poets: Stein; Millay; Loy; Moore; HD; (Riding) Jackson; Boyle; Rukeyser; Bennett; or H. Johnson?
Winners will be featured on the front page of this site.
Lilith looks for chem-trails (but it's cloudy)
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As Lilith led me by (her) nose to the guard shack this morning, S. popped
up from his seat where he often sits out of sight. "Keep your eye on the
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4 comments:
Your stringent request for essays written only in the past 15 years feels like such a vexing challenge, Joe! This likely would exclude Robert Duncan's H.D. Book, for example. Didn't 1990 only happen yesterday? Donna Krolik Hollenberg's* H.D. and Poets After*(pub. 2000, U. of Iowa) is a wonderful repository of essays written by poets on H.D.. One's own idiosyncratic poetic tastes will likely determine her choice of the "best" essay from this volume, but for a general introduction to her work I'd pick Ostriker's "My H.D." --for its attention to writing challenges particular to women and a feminist perspective-- Kathleen Fraser's "The Blank Page: H.D.'s Invitation to Trust and Mistrust Language". The table of contents for this book is available at http://www.bibliovault.org. I really like Ostriker's essay "No Rule of Procedure" about H.D.'s open poetics, but it's a few years beyond the stated parameters.It's collected in *Signets*, Friedman and DuPlessis,eds, 1990.
Adrienne Rich's recent book *The Human Eye* contains an essay entitled "Muriel Rukeyser for the 21st Century", 34-48.
Thanks, Anonymous (or Anonymi)!
We 'anonymi' always have split personalities anyway, and I see there is indeed more than one of us commenting on your blog.
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